Despite this week being fairly fun with all the rush events, I've been looking forward to the weekend quite a bit. Things have felt very busy lately and I havent had much of a chance to catch up on sleep because I'm always running off to somewhere or other. Dragged myself to the politics discussion today, only half awake but luckily it was the only class I had today so it wasn't too painful. I was out last night with my Big Sis and some other girls from my sorority and it was a relief to just get out and have fun without all the pressure of the past week. Last night we had a meeting and I offered to make the website and everyone seemed happy with that. I'm really excited to be able to do that because our chapter doesn't have a website and I'd love to give other people a place to check out, see what it's all about, view pics, and I like the ability to shape people's opinions through design. That's why Ive always loved design. You can take someone's mind and steer the way they view whatever your promotion is through things like typography, imagery, and style. If it's done well, they can come out of it thinking your promotion is the coolest thing in the world, and vice versa if your design is shitty and doesnt provide the right "feel" then a person's opinion of your promotion can be bad. I love that. Anyway, our colors are blue and white, but I think I might throw in some pink cuz one girl asked me to. I really want to get super involved in the house because i enjoy it and because then maybe I can even live in the house next year if my other friends do off campus housing. I hope it'll be a cool site and I'll provide the link when I'm done so you can all check it out and give me advice to make it better.
Tasha is coming to visit today and I'm excited cuz I haven't seen her in about 3 weeks. Originally, Brigitte's friends from Florida were coming down to visit too and we had all these things planned to show them around CA. But because of the horrible hurricane out in Florida (and people say it's bad to live in CA with its earthquakes??) they couldnt come. So now it's just us. Then tomorrow I'm heading home to see my family and get a break from school. We are planning to go up to Lake Arrowhead tomorrow which is one of my favorite places to drive up to and just relax, read, write letters and be away from things. One of the best things about having my friend off at other schools is being able to write long letters to them. Not many people write back, but that's ok. There's this one coffee shop where we usually go sit that has these enormous bay windows overlooking the lake and the other cabins. It's beautiful. I get a little car sick on the windy roads up to the lake, but it's worth it. Unless I throw up, then it's not worth it.
I have some design homework to work on. I have to figure out a good packaging idea for a imaginary self promotion of our work. We found 6 graphic design things we liked, linked them together somehow, and now need to package them creatively. mine turned out to be vintage/nostalgia design because I have a Winston cigarette ad from the 60's, a Hitchcock movie poster, Russian propaganda poster art, and Disneyland attraction posters. I'm thinking maybe of packaging the images in a vintage 1950's tin lunchbox, but we'll see. Any good ideas?
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